Cable-hanger.



G. E. ROBINSON.

GABLE HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED 1mm. 19, 1907.

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@QJQQT%ZJMM UNIT eararne CHARLES E. ROBINSON, LA. CROQSE, 'W'ISGONEiIN,ASSIfi'rNCNtt HF Uhl'ffi'll-ltlifiil) FRANK L. SHUMAN, OF LA CROSSE,WISGDNSIN, AND UNE-T1HIBID llt'l 4..

BECKER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

CABLE-HANGER Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 19, 1907.

Patented ling ill), 19%.. Eerial No. 389,098.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. Boelnsori, residing in La Crosse, in thecounty of La Crosse and State of Wisconsin, whose residence andpost-oflice are 1125 Vine street, La Crosse, Wisconsin, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Cable-Hangers, of which the following isa description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whichare a part of this specification.

This invention relates to cable hangers for supporting aerial' cablesfor telephone service and the like and has for its object to provide anew form of clip construction which is incapable of becomingaccidentally disengaged from the messenger wire.

With the above and other Ob eots 1n view the invention consists in thecable hanger herein claimed, its parts and combinations of parts and allequivalents.

Referring to the accompanying drawings in which like characters ofreference indi cate the same parts in the several views; Figure 1 is aView of a cable hanger-constructed in accordance with this inventionapplied as in use; Fig. 2 is a iew thereof at right angles to the viewshown in Fig. l; and, Fig. 3 is a plan view thereof.

In these drawings 5 represents the usual messenger Wire and 6 is theheavy service cable to be suspended thereby. A clip is provided of asingle length of wire bent at its middle portion to form a loop eye 7with its ends bent to form oppositely disposed. hooks 8 in the relationof twin hooks in ap proximately parallel planes to the plane ,of theloop eye, each effectively closing the opening of the other and the twobeing spaced slightly apart and forming compound curves as shown inFigs. 1 and 3. A band o f stout tie rope 9 is passed through theeye ofthe clip and its two loop ends are then placed together to form a singleloop which is passed around the service cable and the clip is passedtherethrough to form a double slip noose. This effectively fastens theclip to the service cable, and in order to attach it to the messengerwire it is only necessary'tb pass the messenger wire between the twinbooks 8, until 1t 1s below the free "ends thereof and then turn the clipto the position shown in the drawings. The twin require their beingforced slightly apart by the passage of the messenger wire between them.By this means a service cable may be very quickly connected with themessenger wire and the clip is incapable of becoming accidentallydisengaged by reason of the relation of the twin hooks to each other, aseach guards the opening of the other.

hen it is desired to disengage the clip it is only necessary toraise itand turn it to an angle to its normal position where its engaging partscross the messenger wire at approxinn tely right angles thereto, so thatthe two extremities of the wire take the messenger wire between them andthe twisting bends of the twin hooks, thecoinpound curatnre of theengaging portion of each hook member enabling it to remain atapproximately thesame distance from'the twisting portion of the otherhook member to provide the passageway between them for the messengerwire. By the present construction the loop eye of the clip is given atwist of approximately a half turn so asto entircly prevent the passageof the tie rope to the hook members. The bends in the clip member ranseit to form a figure eight with one loop produced by the eye 7 and theother loop prmlnced by the pair of book members as shown in Fig. 2.

What lf claim as my invention is;

1. A. cable hanger, comprising a cli formed of a single wire bent at'itsmiddle portion to form a closed eye with. its ends twisted and bent toform a pair of twin hooks in approximately parallel planes with theplane of the eye,-and a flexible band passing through the eye of theclip and forming a slip house for engaging a cable.

2. In a cable hanger, a messenger wire, a service cable, a clipconsisting of a single length of wire bent at its middle portion to forma closed loop eyewith its ends twisted together and bent to formoppositely disposed hooks spaced apart and adapted to be engaged withthe messenger wire by having the messen er wire forced between them tospring them apart, said hooks being in planes approximately parallelwith the plane of the eye and forming compound curves to remainapproximately the same distance apart at iheits' engag ng fOl'ZfiS aclouble slip noose around the servparts, and a tie rope with its endsastened ice cable. 13 together t0 form ahead end passed through Intestimony whereof, I ufi ix my signathe eye of the clip Wiuh its twolooped. ends ture, in presence of two Witnesses.

5 placed together '50 form singleleop extend- CHARLES E. ROBINSON.

ing around the service cable with the clip Witnesses: and its engagedportion of the tie rope FRANK L. SIIUMAN, passed therethreugl se thatsaid tie rope O. S. SlssoN.

